The Monday after Easter 2020

Here is a picture of the puzzle I just completed. I think it is really pretty!

This next picture shows just how many trees are blooming right now. And before this, there were others and after these are done, there will be still others. We have a LOT of blooming trees, so a lot of allergies!

Here is one of the trees on the mountains really starting to green up.

We got a LOT of rain last night – probably around 6 inches. The creeks were flooding over the roads when Bumpa came home this morning. And this is what Elsa looks like after a day in a muddy pen!

The animals were practicing social distancing today. First is Bullwinkle by himself in the pasture and then T Edison by himself in another part of the pasture.

Look at how the dirt pile is shrinking!

The strawberries are looking good. I keep pinching the blossoms off, so they will make bigger plants.

And a string of vegetable pictures. Spinach in a raised bed; peas growing up toward their trellis ropes; and Swiss chard (you have to really look!)

This is where our dandelions are in their season already – no more yellow ones.

Here are a couple apple trees we started a couple years ago from seeds from the apple we were eating. We were surprised when the first one actually grew, so we planted another and it grew, too.  We might set them out in the “orchard” this year, if we can figure out where that is going to be!

And, finally, a couple pictures of our hill. I was trying to tell Josiah how high it was in his letter today. The first picture is up higher, by the garden, so you can see the neighbor’s house on top of the hill. In the second picture, I’m way down at the lowest spot and you can just barely see a small bit of the neighbor’s roof, if you look very closely. (It is in the space to the left of the two biggest trees.)